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Jim Ambuske

Charlottesville, VA | Director of Digital History, Inpursuit.org; Omohundro Institute Digital Fellow; Creator and narrator, Worlds Turned Upside Down; co-host, Revolutions in Retrospect, Scholar in Residence, Institute for Thomas Paine Studies, Iona University

Topics of Expertise digital public history early American legal history emigration and the American Revolution Loyalism Origins and history of the American Revolution Scotland transatlantic legal history

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Mark Boonshoft

Charlottesville, VA | Conrad M. Hall ’65 Chair in American Constitutional History, Virginia Military Institute

Topics of Expertise Political violence in Revolution and early republic ratification of the US Constitution Revolutionary State constitutions slavery and the Constitution The purpose of education in early America voting rights in US history

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Rebecca Brannon

Harrisonburg, VA | Professor of History, James Madison University

Topics of Expertise American Revolution ideas about age in American life is America a gerontocracy? Loyalists South Carolina history the Founding Fathers

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Zachary Deibel

Lexington, VA | Assistant Professor, Virginia Military Institute

Topics of Expertise Education in the Atlantic World History of Education in Colonial and Revolutionary America Informal Learning in Early America Politicization of Education in Early America

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Carolyn Eastman

Richmond, VA | Professor of History, Virginia Commonwealth University; President of SHEAR

Topics of Expertise checks and balances contested ideas about democracy freedom of the press gender and women history of citizenship and public engagement political economy The Constitution and the Bill of Rights two-party system

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Terri D. Halperin

Richmond, VA | Independent scholar

Topics of Expertise Alien and Sedition Acts Founding of the U.S. Constitution political parties U.S. Congress

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Sheri Ann Huerta

Fairfax, VA | Adjunct Professor, Honors College, George Mason University

Topics of Expertise free people of color freedom and manumission gender and slavery public history slavery and public memory Slavery in Virginia and law

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Frank W. Garmon Jr.

Newport News, VA | Assistant Professor of American Studies, Christopher Newport University

Topics of Expertise business history currency economic history electoral college political economy public finance Taxation and the Constitution wealth in the early republic

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Jane Kamensky

Charlottesville, VA | President and CEO, Monticello; Professor Emerita, Harvard University

Topics of Expertise American Revolution Declaration of Independence Educating for American Democracy roadmap women and civil society

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Cynthia Kierner

Fairfax, VA | Professor of History, George Mason University

Topics of Expertise American Revolution disasters Virginia history women and gender

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Shawn McKay

Williamsburg, VA | Volunteer Colonial Williamsburg; Retired Naval Officer

Topics of Expertise Archiving Black Americans in Colonial America origins of democracy Social history of Early American Republic

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John Ragosta

Charlottesville, VA | Independent Scholar

Topics of Expertise American Revolution Constitution early America loyal opposition religious freedom Sedition Act/Free Press

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John C. Winters

Alexandria, VA | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, RRCHNM

Topics of Expertise history of memory history of museums imperial history Native American history

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Rosemarie Zagarri

Arlington, VA | Distinguished University Professor, GMU

Topics of Expertise American Revolution and the World Early State Constitutions and US Constitution Revolutionary Women

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